Death in the Air

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Summary: Death In The Air
Review: Do you want to read a good book with twists and turns to the resolution? Do you want to pick up a book and not put it down until you are finished? Death in the Air by Agatha Cristie is the perfect match for you. It is a classic mystery published in 1977.
I thought Death in the Air was an average book. At the beginning of the book she introduces too many characters at one time. I also did not like that every so often throughout the book she used French words. For example, "...I do not wash out- what a term, mon Dieu!" (Pg. 55) I enjoyed that every character had a different personality and the murderer ended up to be someone you would have never suspected. After reading this book, I would conclude that it was very well written, and I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys mysteries.

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Summary: Death In The Air
Review: Do you want to read a good book with twists and turns to the resolution? Do you want to pick up a book and not put it down until you are finished? Death in the Air by Agatha Cristie is the perfect match for you. It is a classic mystery published in 1977.
I thought Death in the Air was an average book. At the beginning of the book she introduces too many characters at one time. I also did not like that every so often throughout the book she used French words. For example, "...I do not wash out- what a term, mon Dieu!" (Pg. 55) I enjoyed that every character had a different personality and the murderer ended up to be someone you would have never suspected. After reading this book, I would conclude that it was very well written, and I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys mysteries.

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Summary: flying to fate
Review: Poirot is flying for the frist time. Trying to sleep like
the lady in row one. Only unlike Poirot she dose not wake up.
So stats Death in the Air.

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Summary: Poirot takes to flight
Review: Some of Christie's novels only betray their age by a subtle reference to a bygone time, others have plots than hinge on a point that modern technology has made obsolete. In this day of cell phones, SUV, satellite TV, computer networks etc just how isolated can a house in the English countryside be? Still other stories are dated in a very charming way, and lead the reader back to a far different time. This 1935 novel takes us back to a day when air travel was very different from today. A plane of 21 passengers had 2 pilots to fly from Paris to London and 2 stewards who served five course meals.

The story opens with Poirot embarking on a flight between Paris and London. He and the other passengers settle themselves for the journey, marred only by the presence of a stowaway wasp which is quickly killed by one of the passengers. The situation changes when a steward tries to wake one of the passengers in preparation for landing. She has died during the flight.

Poirot sets out to solve the crime which appears to have been committed by using a dart tipped with snake venom shot from a blowgun. All the passengers are under suspicion and have lives that are surprising intertwined. The trail leads Poirot from London, to the English countryside and back to Paris with inquiries stretching halfway around the world. In the end Poirot is, of course, triumphant. He even manages to help true love along the way.

Even though this is very much a period piece the mystery is intriging and Christie comes through with one of her characteristic surprise twists.

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Summary: Poirot takes to flight
Review: Some of Christie's novels only betray their age by a subtle reference to a bygone time, others have plots than hinge on a point that modern technology has made obsolete. In this day of cell phones, SUV, satellite TV, computer networks etc just how isolated can a house in the English countryside be? Still other stories are dated in a very charming way, and lead the reader back to a far different time. This 1935 novel takes us back to a day when air travel was very different from today. A plane of 21 passengers had 2 pilots to fly from Paris to London and 2 stewards who served five course meals.

The story opens with Poirot embarking on a flight between Paris and London. He and the other passengers settle themselves for the journey, marred only by the presence of a stowaway wasp which is quickly killed by one of the passengers. The situation changes when a steward tries to wake one of the passengers in preparation for landing. She has died during the flight.

Poirot sets out to solve the crime which appears to have been committed by using a dart tipped with snake venom shot from a blowgun. All the passengers are under suspicion and have lives that are surprising intertwined. The trail leads Poirot from London, to the English countryside and back to Paris with inquiries stretching halfway around the world. In the end Poirot is, of course, triumphant. He even manages to help true love along the way.

Even though this is very much a period piece the mystery is intriging and Christie comes through with one of her characteristic surprise twists.